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2022 FISU World University Championship Cross-country: Great Britain emerges at the top

Championships 14 March 2022

The student-athletes from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland won the Country Challenge at the 2022 FISU World University Championship Cross-country held in Aveiro, Portugal. Ugandan and French runners also shined. In rainy and windy conditions, Isobel Fry (gold) and Saskia Millard (silver) clinched Great Britain’s first medals, as they dominated the […]

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A brand new track awaits runners of the 2022 FISU World University Championship Cross-country

Championships 10 March 2022

The 2022 FISU World University Championship Cross-country will take place on Saturday on the campus of the University of Aveiro, in Portugal. Students athletes from 20 different countries will run in an area entirely restored for the occasion.   “Organizing this competition gave us the opportunity to rehabilitate a degraded area of the university campus […]

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One Month Countdown Starts to the 2022 FISU World University Championship Cross-country

Championships 9 February 2022

  One month from now one of the longest established FISU World University Championships will again bring together the world’s student-athletes when the 2022 FISU Championship Cross-country takes place. The city of Aveiro, in the northern region of Portugal, along with the University of Aveiro will host this 22nd edition of the event on 12 […]

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Another record-setting run for WUC Cross-country champ Cheptegei

Championships 8 October 2020

  On an evening billed as a world record day, former FISU World University Cross-country Championship titleist Joshua Cheptegei smashed the men’s 10,000 metres mark at the Valencia World Record Day event.   Crossing the line in a stunning 26 minutes 11.02 seconds in a near-empty socially-distanced Turia stadium, Uganda’s Cheptegei wiped the last of […]

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Former WUC Cross-country champ Cheptegei breaks historic athletics world record

Championships 14 August 2020

Uganda’s Jospeh Cheptegei demonstratingly reacts to knocking two seconds off one of the oldest athletics records in the books by running 12:35 for the 5000m at the Monaco 2020 Diamond League (Photo courtesy @MeetingHerculis Twitter) History was in the making on a hot and humid night at the Monaco 2020 Diamond League as Uganda’s Joseph […]

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World University Cross-country Championship in Morocco postponed

Championships 28 February 2020

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) was informed by the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training of the Kingdom of Morocco that they decided to postpone the 2020 World University Cross-country Championship in Marrakech, Morocco, due to the coronavirus outbreak. The Championship was to be held on 7 March 2020. The statement FISU received statement said: “In view […]

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Cross-country ace targets first WUC of 2020

Cross-country 30 January 2020

Nicole van der Merwe (Courtesy: imageSA)The 2020 World University Championships are just over a month away, with WUC Cross-country being the first of 29 events on the FISU Championship calendar this year.   As a curtain raiser for the only Championship taking place on African soil, Morocco hosted the FASU (Federation of African University Sport) […]

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Morocco wants to pull off a winner with Cross-country Championships

Championships 13 January 2020

MARRAKECH – The first-time hosts in Morocco want to make the 2020 World University Cross-country Championship a huge success. The event, which will kick off the 2020 World University Championship season, will start on 7 March.  The official team hotel for the 2020 WUC Cross-country in Marrakech“We want to make it a real festival of […]